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COMIC PAGE Monday, December 16, 1918 About Plays nd Players By BIDE DUDLEY iF the Stage Women's War Re- |to mako “Yip, Yip, Yaphank” a su Nef will iend us its ear a mo- | cose ment, we'd like to suggest that FARNUM’S BIG SALARY. it send @ contingent of pretty girls) wiiiam Fox announces he has re- to Camp Merritt, N. J., to take part |newed his contract with William Far- in a “movie scenario” we-have just | num. film star, for a term of years, at Yecelved from Private Alvin Smith, | $780,000 « year. Figuring the average tim M Fara actually end, & wounded returned fighter in Base | {org the camera he wiil Peceive St Hospital No. 39, at that camp. Pri-|cents per second, or a square meal vate Smith's “scenario,” when trans- | every five second lated, merely resolves itself coh We AsK You. plea for @ giimpse of some beautiful Whatena going © €0 with. © any girls loaded down with candiey aod} who will advise you that, when the other dainties, lone soldier on the transport Oregu- . fi 7 nian swarmed to the rail in response a Sag dl ood toed to the noisy reception given him in mob scene,” he writes, “I know | the harbor, he turned to Gen, Bundy's your paper will deliver the goods,|charger, Pauline, whom he was so print this. I apologize for my escorting bome, and yelled “Neigh, writing—just so we see a mob of |"el#h, Pauline! | females, mene There are plenty of pretty girls | ACCORDING TO FLYNN. working with the Stage Women's| Joe Flynn, Arthur Hammerstein's War Relief. As members of the vis- |ew press agent, said last night that iting mob we'd suggest—but thera | Mac West is doing a new dance called we'd better let Waiter Kingsiog, |the Gelatine Shake in “Some Tim Broadway's beauty connoisseur, pic! “Have you ever seen the Shimmy ‘om out. asked Joe, “Uh, huh,” replied we. 3 HE'LL WRITE SANTY, “Weil,” sald Joe, “in @ two-dance| Wey aiiment tiuw for Samy Claus, race the Shimmy would run fourth to feller with tbe Wye, ° Puzzle—What Kind of a Cook Is Aunt Edna? <4 — YeS uNCLE EZRA AND I i 1peeD & PENNY Te SEE WHICH WouLD Come, “TS YOuR House SO You RE COMING “IS KEEP AUAT EDNA COMPANY FOR CHRISTMAS DINNER AU! A PLEASANT LOOKIN’ LADY? “THIS 16 A PHOTO OF ~TH’ _ “eova! the Gelatine Shake, I am proud to NO —THATS So et be Mis siete, state.” LUKE -Nou'Ve ‘ ve y erased J Oe — A_ BED Room Mi6$U6"-"E Z'PoGE 2 THA lovet's ten asd Ian Gossip. | Got A NICE LiL’ SOE - Now ‘TS HER WHEN woat I'd like to have; i do it soon, 1 ubink, SHES -ER~ GETTIN’ HER PICTURE “TAKEN! Harry Auracher, composer of “The | Pearl Maiden,” is bere from Chicago. ‘The Messrs. Shubert have changed FLAT ! THATS A FINE CLOTHES CLOSET “THERE! Heres “TH’ LIVIN’ Room ! ee as Ge the opening date of “A Little Joure oud Saaty's | ney” trom Wednesday to Thurs Bence cece eae hight at the Little ‘Theatre. PEK Ga as Goats” oak ‘The Hippodrome's salary list totals $22,580 a week. There are no reduc- . Well, anrway, I'll write the note tions during Christmas or holy Sad ry it to my dad. ween, Paton Tee be Lila Lee, the black-haired young " Cars'mas, ve Til watch al ale | im star in the red dress, will leave ® ~ on for California soon to resume her . it t to ine, Ed Wynn, the “Some Tim WANT “CANARY COTTAGE.” dian, has appeared at ninet: Lee Parvin and Boyle Woolfolk have | benefits this season without a | n ey'd like to take a “Canary | cancellation. | rs sttage’ company out on the road. will be reveated at the | ‘They are negotiating with Otiver Christmas afternoon. | Morosco for road rights to this musi- will be play: a cal piece, WALSH AS A FIREMAN. “The Mikado’ night Goginning this week there will be freo Thursday morning matinees at Palace Theatre for wounded sol- nal 4 ma) i Pt ie rs Waiter Walsh, stage door keeper at biel since See oe esas. | i : i waco the Winter Garden, used to be a vol. | et " 4 pieture, | unteer fighter of the fire flend over|,,,bvcum Thaw's second | pimurty ‘in New Jersey, and he still loves to) Her Mistaken wilt ee eck | j Slarm came tn, Waleh was invited to [George Broadhurst cere role Be go along and he jumped on a wagon. | Sew farce, “icen Tt rn eee ennon for Me was greatly surprised to find the |) Wet iatn make rome anow Acenes Biaze was in his’ ow apartment, | fake Piscid to wake tom OCT | Capris. 1018, Prema Ptitabinn Co CHT Reentng Work), lls d Some People Certainly Do JOE’S CAR Ceprright, Wit, Prewe Pubisttay Ca. (N.Y. Svaniag World Rushing in, he soon reappeared, carry- “ er « r . 7 ‘ 1 a a arte URE, 2 | wvema"Varma’” gn fo-sghi at the NISAY YLOOKED ty FLiver oven? [OUR SECOND-HAND DEPARTMENT SAY! p'y*kNow “hey's A SAY WE CAN ALLOW You 4100 ON YoUR CAR. Hat's A NERY Good FIGURE! 4 "Midnight Frol: It's a surprise, 80} iieat ee ee don't mention It | — Grace George's company includes A TRAVELLING “FROLIC.” Leslie Austin, Zelda Sears, Mayne) F. Ziegteld jr. now thht the new “Nine| Lynton, Cora Witherspoon, Harry | ‘4 o'Cloc ecle” and the “Mideene| Hanlon, Kathleen Comegys, Arthur | Frolic” are successfully launched, has | Dennis and John Nb igre eae i ordered his stage director, Ned Way- Harry Beresford is starring In A burn, to start work on a travelling Live Wire” on the Interstate Circwt. “Midnight Frolic.” A telescopic stage | Harry Lyons has the juvenile role. | will be carried. ‘The show will not be ogeh @ midnight affair, but will begin at | C08 Nathan, ‘Terrace Garden Dance Palledapai’ will open next month In| nas invented a new dance whic fcwaninaas will Introduce at the Gamien for $500 z Mr. Nathan says that for $500 he'd RoW WW EVE'GOT HIM, invent @ new dance himself. | ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. WELL —~How mucH'LL_Y'ALLow ME ON (T “TowaRD OCXNE OF “HOSE UTTLE sEDANS? HUNDRED DOLLARS WORTH OF “TIRES ON MY CAR? THAT'S WHAT WE ARE | E, J. Condley, who teaches dancing, pies to apprise us that the word “choreographic,” over which we stum- 4 4 bled the other day, means “dance | , Gilligan fig (Ha errgiee ype writing.” All right, but what the) omerican. Nat Wills bas been des Sam Hil} does “dance writing" moan? | “mrt a year, Micky Nat Royster 1s manager of t a Salle The: ¥ ‘or F.1 THE “Biooker sHow,” the La Balle Th autre, Chicago, for F A performance for the benefit of the site | Catholic Big Brothers’ League will be LIFE IN GREENPOINT. held at the Hippodrome Sunday eve-| Botty better keap a better eye on ning, Dec. 29. It is to “The | ecm use onder w' ant 4 Sie cette ariews iar miaie te gk S| “SOMEWHERE IN NEW YORK” | * {te title. bi Skeoxicks, you!""—Greenpoint frowns 3 é ad nana viatleds : ae Getting Up in the Morning! THE Pee pmun Ota e AlN, atquaiimRok to civ OW, GER: How Tootsie BBE ieee on BR'ESLOS Serra On. S Lusi! CAE DAISYS IN Sort! WOULD YA PIPE | IF YA SEY Be ss teict omer elite mente eee | SIERRAS SRT eE TA Rares) Er ~ SMES SHOP LASest BASE Nees that piece at the Broad Btreet Thea- | Urigsby tre, Newark, on Christmas Day, Marle Carroll and Denman Maley are the featured play Louise Mink is also prominently cast. he eanght a beau with these ‘epe-ida, | TO GETTY | | — Bhe' ~ h cen FOR THE SOLDIERS. he's married wow with fourteen kida, | | i} J . Ae ‘ AES TRAFES IT! t ' e BOnTcha wisn ya_4 TA, GET GP in; OULD DO Like HER TH! MORNIN’: Hisses\] FOOLISHMENT. Loretta Smith was rather fly At mon ahe ured to wink the eyo. T's Homer! HE GETS vp EARLY To Fix 4 TH! FURNACE, Sus Hill, M.'T. Middleton and Corpt FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, | wi . Smith are sending a musical “It's the oldest plece of furni production entitled “Naughty, Naugh- | ktow of.” eR bl ty." over the camp circult. It is being “What's that?" staged by Mr. Smith who did much| “The multiplica sartir FAST! ol) QS yr BAWLER SAID SOMETHING. AWLER admired his wife im- mensely and incidentally his CAUTIOUS JOHN. R. ROBERTS, a banker in a Western town, was very bald, | wife's singing. At the party, and was in the habit of wear. | when Mrs. Bawler was asked to sing| ing tis hat in the bank during busi. | “Mbere Is a Garden in My Face,” the| ness hours as @ protection from files | husband glowed with pride. in warm weather and from cold| It didn’t matter though she had a! breezes in winter. face like that of a Lippopotamus and| Every week a negro employes of | o> 4 a voice like that of an elephant. He eat beaming as she sang. When about half way through, he wispered to his neighbor. “Don't you think my wife's got a the bank presented a check and drew his wages. One day, as he was put. ting the money in a worn and greasy wallet, the banker chanced to pass by and asked Showing That You CAN Go Through a Door Without Opening It! fine voice?” “What? “Look here, John, why don't you said his neighbor whollet some of that money sta y in the| end a Nobody’ to" 12 sto Beor was a bit deaf | bank and keep an account with us?" | He Tih Nobedy trip stone’ G 9° “Don't you think my wife's got a| “Well, sah,” replied the negro, lean- | le Sikes todo S0P ping for fine voice?” dt anker and gazing| is wife : ‘What u at the Panama hat he st Fe “Don't you think my wife's got aj wore. “I's always afeared, You an ~< { fine voice?” roared Bawler ab, you look like you was alway , “Sorr: aid the oth #haking | read —o ‘a a gAbr-\poivded | : his hand nat awful w wr | ready to start somewheres."—Satur. = there is making such a frff ay Lvening Poste ‘ I can't hear a word you eay."-—Lon- tae SOMES A \ SS». don Answers. CAUSE FOR THANKSGIVING. “Never Teo O18 te Learn” i Irish farmer, waking up in at the foot of the bed He reached out for 4 gun and pertorated the ghost with a bullet. In the morn- ing he discovered that he had made @ target of his own obirt | ‘What did you do then?” inquired the friend to whom he told the story. | “I knelt down and thanked God Dovsie HEAccA ] that I hadn't been inside it,” eaid the | on ears ° farmer plously,—Youth's Companion Terwath, Genm ees, |